Joe Cortright
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Upgrades Coming To TAP: Mobile App and Greater Multi-Modal Integration
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This Winter riders will be able to pay by phone using Metro's TAP app. But that's not all...
Community Board Member Who Said Pedestrians ‘Deserve’ to Die May Get Booted
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"We're going to look into who that employee is and whatever appropriate disciplinary measures can be taken," Mayor de Blasio said on Friday.
Houston Rolling Back Parking Requirements
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The city will leave it up to businesses to decide how many parking spaces they need in two center-city neighborhoods.
Today’s Headlines
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More on Tenderloin Collision that Killed Pedestrian (Fox2) Why Hit and Runs Happen (EastBayTimes) D5 Candidates Discuss Transportation Positions (SFExaminer) More on Yesterday’s Embarcadero Station Flood (SFChron) AV’s Mean We’ll Need Public Transportation More than Ever (WEForum) Housing Market Helping Fuel the Economy–and Inequity (Curbed) Most Expensive Counties are All in the Bay Area (SFGate) […]
Truck Driver Runs Over, Drags Tenderloin Pedestrian in Another Fatal Crash
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We must require side guards on trucks entering our cities... and we must stop delaying on safety improvements to our streets
Pittsburgh Reveals the Downside of Self-Driving Cars
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Wider inequality. More sprawl. Worse transit. Those are some of the outcomes we could see from self-driving cars in cities, according to a Pittsburgh-based transit advocacy group.
Talking Headways Podcast: The View from North Vancouver
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A member of Parliament talks about creating better transportation options for her constituents, new transportation technologies, and the importance of political engagement.
Bay Area Legislators Talk Housing
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All the panelists have been working on housing issues for years. "Things are changing," they say, albeit slowly.
Today’s Headlines
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BART Stations Getting Housing (SFChron) Embarcadero Station Springs a Leak (SFGate) Questions Over Costs of BART Canopies (SFExaminer) Life Next to MacArthur BART (SFChron) Buildings in Dublin Close to BART (SFChron) Bay Area Rents Charge Back Up (EastBayTimes) Uber/Lyft Tax Heading to Voters (SFExaminer) Pedestrian Hit on Market Street (SFGate, CBSLocal) SMART Train Says Track […]
Open Thread: Hayes Valley’s People Street. What Would You Pedestrianize Next?
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Perhaps no other neighborhood has come so far--from the bad old days of the Central Freeway, to pedestrianizing one block of street. What's next?